On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, we typically expect 'easy' instances of the problem. Though we > would like to be able to handle large easy instances too, like trying to > install the latest version of every package on hackage simultaneously. > Yeah, that kind of benchmark makes me a bit nervous but is should definetely be a good stress test.
> Perhaps we should have a go with profiling and see if there is anything > obvious. > Absolutely. > Actually it didn't get funded as a GSoC project but Maciej Wos is > looking at this problem for his 4th year project. As you say, the design > space is very wide so I would not want to discourage you or anyone from > looking at it. > Ah, I didn't know it was denied funding. Too bad. Good to hear Maciej is still interested in working on it. > > I haven't looked into how to use this package in cabal-install yet, > > but I suspect it will be fairly easy. I'd appreciate any comments and > > help on that though since I'm not familiar with the cabal-install code > > base yet. > > I want to make the resolver a bit more easily replaceable. > > [Lot's of useful information snipped] Thanks for the info Duncan. I'll be looking into this but don't expect super rapid progress. Where do I send patches? Cheers, Josef _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
